Adventure SV: routes the guide owns, not the platform
Working capital to turn a hackathon-winning route recorder into a licensed product for outdoor guide services in the Pacific Northwest.
The project
A guide who has spent nine seasons learning a river has, at the end of it, nothing they can sell. The routes live on a platform, the photographs live on a platform, and the platform can change its terms on a Tuesday. Adventure SV records the same walk as data the guide holds: a GPS trace with photographs and notes attached, sealed in a BRC-100 wallet, shared or sold selectively rather than uploaded and forgotten.
Tom O'Neill built it over forty-eight hours in Medford and took first place with it. Eleven months on there are four guide services running it under a pilot agreement, and the thing standing between the pilot and a paid product is not engineering: it is the eight months of runway needed to finish offline sync, ship the iOS build, and get through the insurance review that every guide service asks for before it will put a tool in front of clients.
